Re: Testing Sandforce SSD

On Aug 3, 2010, at 9:27 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>
> 2) I've heard that some SSD have utilities that you can use to query
> the write cycles in order to estimate lifespan.  Does this one, and is
> it possible to publish the output (an approximation of the amount of
> work along with this would be wonderful)?
>

On the intel drives, its available via SMART.  Plenty of hits on how to read the data from google.  Sandforce drives
probablyhave it exposed via SMART as well. 

I have had over 50 X25-M's (80GB G1's) in production for 22 months that write ~100GB a day and SMART reports they have
78%of their write cycles left.  Plus, when it dies from usage it supposedly enters a read-only state.  (these only have
recoverabledata so data loss on power failure is not a concern for me). 

So if Sandforce has low write amplification like Intel (they claim to be better) longevity should be fine.

> merlin
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